Today, there is an understandably large amount of news coverage aboutthe state of Illinois abolishing the death penalty - with the Illinois governor waiting until the eleventh hour to make his decision on whether he would stand on the matter. It's big news and it should be.

However, in Ohio there is also very big news regarding capital punishment in this country. Ohio has just set precedent by using 5 grams of pentobarbital to execute Johnnie Baston.

Oklahoma's John Duty may go down in history as being the first man that was executed with pentobarbital used in the lethal injection. However, Ohio's Johnnie Baston has just earned his own place in the record books as being the first human being in America to be executed in the exact same way that American vets put beloved pets to sleep.

In Ohio, executing a man and putting down a dog or cat -- no difference.